Une Lange Universelle (Universal Language)

Feature Narrative, Experimental

Director: Matthew Rankin

89 mins

Synopsis

Two women find frozen cash, try to retrieve it. A tour guide leads confused tourists around Winnipeg sites. A man quits his job, visits his mother. Storylines intertwine surreally as identities blur in a disorienting comedy.

F E A T U R E F I L M S

Production

Metafilms

Festival

2024 - Directors' Fortnight, Cannes Film Festival - Audience Award

2024 - Toronto International Film Festival

La Garde Blanche (The White Guard)

Feature Documentary

Director: Julien Elie

109 mins

Synopsis

The White Guard is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Julien Élie and released in 2023. A followup to his 2018 film Dark Suns, the film delves further into the issue of violence in Mexico, profiling the collusion between multinational industry, organized crime and the government of Mexico to expropriate land and exploit people and natural resources.

Production

Metafilms and Cinema Palmopan

Festival

2023- RIDM - Magnus Isacsson Award and Student Jury Award

Caiti Blues

Feature Documentary

Director: Justine Harbonnie

84mins

Synopsis

Caiti Lord has a beautiful voice that she plans to use to do more than sell cherry cocktails. As madness surges in the United States, in a most disturbing absurd manner, Caiti is overtaken by a growing sense of suffocation. So Caiti sings. The blues.

Production

Cinquième Maison and Sister Productions - Nellie Carrier and Julie Paratian

Festival

2023 - ACID CANNES

2023 - HotDOCS - Special Juy Prize for Canadian Feature Documentary Film

2023- Vision Du Réel

Cette Maison

Hybrid Documentary

Director: Miryam Charles

75mins

Synopsis

Bridgeport, January 17, 2008. A teenage girl is found hanged in her room. While everything points to suicide, the autopsy report reveals something else. Ten years later, the director and cousin of the teenager examine the past causes and future consequences of this unsolved crime. Like an imagined biography, the film will explore the relationship between the security of the living space and the violence that can jeopardize it.

Production

Félix Dufour-Laperrière (Embuscade Films)

Festival

2022- Berlinale 72 - Forum

2022 - ART of the Reel

2022 - HotDocs

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S H O R T F I L M S

Fantas

Short fiction

Director: Halima Elkhatabi

12 mins

Synopsis

Worlds and genres collide one summer afternoon as a young woman and her horse make a surprising and eventful odyssey in this richly cinematic drama by Montreal's Halima Elkhatabi

Production

Les Films de L'autre

Festival

2024 - Toronto International Film Festival - Short Cuts 1

Sing Me a Lullaby

Short Documentary

Director: Tiffany Hsiung

29mins

Synopsis

In 1965, Tiffany’s mother was separated from her parents. She never saw them again. 40 years later, Tiffany flies to Taiwan to try & find her grandparents - with just two names scribbled on a napkin.

Production

Golden Nugget Productions and CBC Gem

Festival

2022 - Toronto International Film Festival - Share Her Journey award

2020 - TIFF Top 10 Short Films

2020 - NYC DOC - Best Documentary Short Film

2021 - Canadian Screen Awards - Best Short Documentary

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Clebs (Mutts)

Short Documentary

Director: Halima Ouardiri

18mins

Synopsis

The animals’ brown, beige, white and black coats blend into the ochre earth and sunbaked walls. After the calm of rest hour, a deafening cacophony breaks out at feeding time, as the dogs bark excitedly. In a stray-dog refuge in Agadir, Morocco, more than 750 animals find help and protection while awaiting adoption. Each day is the same as the last, the only excitement provided by mealtime. Empathetic and alert to subtleties of light and texture, Halima Ouardiri observes the rhythm of the animals’ lives, their suspended existence paralleling the far more tragic waiting endured by millions of human beings in search of a new home.

Production

Producer: Halima Ouardiri

Festival

2020 - Berlinale 70 - Generation 14+ Crystal Bear

Special Prize of the Generation 14plus International Jury for the Best Short Film

2020 - RENDEZ-VOUS QUEBEC CINEMA - Best Documentary Short Film

2019 - FICFA - Prix La Vague for Best Short Film

2019 - RIDM Official Selection

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